And now Rikard Sjöblom is on stage with his Gungfly project. A real mashup of styles, but with Rikard’s signature style.

And had a chance to chat with Smalltape – lovely people!

More Smalltape guys – what a performance they gave, even more so as we discovered that the previous drummer quit a few days ago and the new guy nailed it with just two rehearsals!

Wobbler playing the title and opening track from their latest album, From Silence to Somewhere – think Änglagård/King Crimson/VDGG mashup. Another “find” for me, but not for the faint-hearted!!

Wobbler – hard-core Nordic Prog! I think you either love or hate, I love ❤️

Here’s an old friend some of you may know…

German band Long Distance Calling – hard, driving instrumental. Tight as hell and fabulous groove. It’s their second time here at Loreley. Checkout their new album, Boundless.

And nice to meet Andreas and Lars from Wobbler – they only had time for 4 songs in their 75 minutes 😂

Long Distance Calling absolutely rocking the house – heavier than most metal bands!

LDC were fabulous. What a day! Still three big bands to come! Now, after some liquid refreshment, Mystery from Quebec!

And we met up with Olivia, who has compered Night of The Prog for the last four years.

Aaaaand we bumped into Long Distance Calling guitarist David Jordan.

Mystery charming the crowd…

It’s around this time of the day where the quality of the posts degenerates… Weissbier…

Jean Pageau in the crowd…

My old friend Roine Stolt, with his new project The Sea Within – another great album that grows with multiple plays…

Marco Minnemann drum solo? Yes please!

And now we have Camel playing Moonmadness…

Morning to you all, well afternoon, I guess. Slight problem this morning having left my phone in the hotel room, realising just as the ferry started across the river. So a trip back and then back again. Pfff!

Anyways, this is the third and final day, and Anubis from Australia are playing right now. I consider them a heavy, up-tempo Pink Floyd.

And it’s hot and sunny, as usual… This the life!

Anubis were mightily appreciated – a great start to the day!

Important to keep hydrated…

A change of pace now with Casey McPherson playing a set of his solo songs along with some Flying Colours stuff. And we have insider info that he has a surprise special guest on violin…

He’s a super singer!

And there you go, Olivia on violin. Super cool!

That’s was a really beautiful set by Casey and great to see/hear Olivia – she’s the compère of the event, keep up now…

And here’s Casey at the famous “Loreley Gate”, greeting fans. What a lovely man he is too!

From one/two on stage to 11! Norwegian band Gentle Knife. Heavy ’70s Prog with quite some VdGG flavours.

OK, here we have all 11 playing…

Crazy stuff, as you would imagine… This. Is. So. Prog.

French Prog legends Ange played an entrancing set, with a lot of support from their devoted fans, despite the World Cup Final being played at the the same time.

And now we have Arena playing their superb album The Visitor.

Arena ripping it up!

This is fabulous!

When at a Prog gig, read a book… 😂

John Mitchell absolutely nodding it!

And who do we have as the final band of a tremendous Loreley – Isildurs Bane featuring Steve Hogarth and Richard Barbieri…